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14 unusual facts about dot.com bubble


Andreas Ramos

As co-chair of the business and technical writers' division of the National Writers Union Ramos was cited as an expert on the regional labor market during the Dot-com bubble, bust and recovery.

Bertrand Newton

Newton became wealthy creating ads for technology companies during the dot-com boom, before quitting advertising during the post-boom downturn.

Buggies Unlimited

In 2000-2001, the company experienced tough times as the economy struggled through the dot-com crash and the September 11 attacks.

Coltan

There has been a significant drop in the production and sale of coltan and niobium from African mines since the dramatic price spike in 2000, based on dot com speculation and multiple ordering.

Handy Backup

In 2003 due to a financial markets storm caused by a Dot-com bubble crash, the companies decided to make their businesses independently and divide the software products they created together.

Happening Happy Hippy Party

The Happening Happy Hippy Party, or HHHP, was a British political satire website and ezine that ran between 1997 and 2002, emerging during the dotcom boom in British satire.

J Peezy

In late 2000, eFuct was forced to close it doors (like many companies during the Dot-com bubble) due to lack of funding.

Olga Volchkova

That same year, she moved to downtown Palo Alto, California, where she found herself in the heart of the first Dotcom boom.

PC/Computing

When the technology bubble burst in mid-2000, the rechristened "Ziff-Davis Smart Business" lost its ad market.

Shuttle by United

With demand for travel to the San Francisco Bay Area heavy during the Dot-com bubble, Shuttle was profitable, but it encountered operational problems and labor unrest.

They Go On

They Go On was a dot-com era Internet-only soap opera developed by Levi Strauss & Co. and NBC Digital Productions and streamed from NBC's website.

Video game publisher

In the United States, revenue from the sales of video and computer games exceeded revenue from film box-office receipts for the first time in the dot-com days of the late 1990s, when technology companies in general were surrounded by hype.

Web portal

The interest in portals saw some old media companies racing to outbid each other for Internet properties but died down with the dot-com bust in 2000 and 2001.

Yaletown

During the latter years of the dot com boom, these streets housed Vancouver's "multimedia gulch" similar to the SOMA area of San Francisco.


2685 Masursky

Since Cassini passed the asteroid at a distance of 1.6 million kilometres (about four times the EarthMoon distance), the images it returned showed nothing more than a dot.

Alberto Lim

Early speculations also pointed to showbiz talk host Boy Abunda as the new head of the Department of Tourism (DOT) but Abunda declined the post.

Amy Steinberg

She currently lives in Matthews, North Carolina with her two dogs, Luna and Tiki and her two cats, Ico and Doodie-Dot,

Amy Winehouse Foundation

Such events include the auction of the iconic polka dot chiffon dress worn by Winehouse on the cover of her critically acclaimed second album Back to Black - with a winning bid of £36,000 GBP.

Backseat Freestyle

The song is preceded by a short skit, at the end of the previous track "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe", in which Lamar's friend tells him "K-Dot get in the car nigga, we finna roll out. Nigga I got a pack of blacks and a beat CD, get your freestyles ready."

Billy doll

Billy and Carlos donned drag in 1999, with Billy dressed in a gingham checkered pantsuit as "Dolly" and Carlos as "Carmen" in a polka dot outfit reminiscent of those worn by Carmen Miranda.

Brake fluid

For example, most brake fluid sold in North America is classified by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) under its own ratings such as "DOT 3" and "DOT 4".

Cathode ray tube amusement device

The player turns a control knob to position the CRT beam on the screen; to the player, the beam appears as a dot, which represents a reticle or scope.

Charles McRae

Volunteer Network Services was eventually sold and McRae took a position with AllVertical, Inc., a “dot com” based out of Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1999.

D-Dot

From 1996-1998, he was the "Captain" of Sean "Diddy" Combs' producing team: The Hitmen.

In a 3 year span, Angelettie went from intern, to director of merchandising and management, to booking shows for artists Craig Mack and Notorious B.I.G., to managing R&B diva Mary J. Blige on her "My Life" Tour, to becoming the head of Bad Boy's A&R Department as Vice-President, and then finally in 1996 becoming the Captain of The Hitmen —Bad Boy's hit-making production team.

Dan Piachaud

In a first-class match for Oxford University against Hampshire in 1960, Piachaud was hit for 28 off an over bowled by Butch White: after bowling a dot ball, Piachaud was hit for four sixes and then a four.

Dogshitter Wants

Although ostensibly concerned with jokes about cultural figures like Elton John & Michel Gondry, quite large parts of the show were impenetrably obscure, and were probably only fully understood by the creators and their immediate friends and associates, particularly those who were part of the dot com industry centred on Brick Lane in London, England.

Dot matrix printing

In 1970, Centronics (then of Hudson, New Hampshire) introduced a dot matrix printer, the Centronics 101.

Down by the Bay

The song "Polka Dot Tail" from Ween's 1997 album The Mollusk contains lyrics taken from "Down by the Bay," including original variations on the pattern.

Fforest Fawr Geopark

Limekilns dot the hillsides wherever limestone puts in an appearance and tramways for conveying both raw materials and finished products are plentiful.

GAI Consultants, Inc.

This doubled GAI's highway and bridge design capabilities and brings construction monitoring to the wide array of engineering consulting services offered by the firm, opening the door for state Department of Transportation (DOT) work.

George F. Keane

After the dot-com bubble burst he advocated for the creation of a new index in place of the S&P 500, and worked with Research Affiliates in the development of the Fundamental Index.

Hedcut

The Wall Street Journal adopted the current form of this portraiture in 1979 when freelance artist Kevin Sprouls approached the paper with some ink dot illustrations he had created.

Illinois Route 336

The Peoria-to-Macomb corridor being studied (DOT Job No. P94-025-00 URS Job No. 25364560; July 7, 2003) closely parallels U.S. 136 to Marietta, and then Illinois Route 95 to Cuba, along Hickory Road to Canton, north on Illinois Route 78 to Farmington, then turning east along Illinois Route 116 to the Peoria area.

It Gets Worse

Created by M. Dot Strange, the video projects animated lyrics of the song in front of an animated background by using samples of Jorden Haley's art made specifically for their fifth album, How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence.

Janice Erlbaum

In 1996, she was hired at noted dot com art factory Pseudo.com (subject of the documentary We Live in Public), and rose to the position of Executive Producer before departing in 1999.

Kitchen Table International

Several years after the company demonstrated its Reverse LPRINT command, which allowed a dot-matrix printer to function as a scanner (the demo was actually a videotape run backwards, showing sheets of text feeding into a printer and coming out blank after they’d been “scanned”), Thunderware introduced the Thunderscan scanner, which replaced the ribbon cartridge of an Apple ImageWriter with a scanning module.

Kolam

a pattern, in which a stroke (Kambi, Sikku in Tamil) runs once around each dot (Pulli), and goes to the beginning point (endless/cycle), as a mostly geometrical figure.

Lawless Element

Soundvision featured production from Magnif, J Dilla and Madlib and guest appearances from Dilla, Melanie Rutherford, Phat Kat, Big Tone, P.Dot, SelfSays and Diverse.

Luis Jacob

Artists including Peaches, Greek Buck, Navigator (Simon Cowling), Aria, The Dot Wiggen Strings (Sandro Perri and Todd Fox), Pausenfuller, Brandon Labelle and Frank Rynne.

Marcheline Bertrand

-- search for Woods Road Productions on Corporation Wiki dot com --> In 2005, Bertrand was the executive producer of the documentary Trudell, which chronicles the life and work of Santee Sioux musician and activist John Trudell.

Mark Ripple

Investors who bought dot-com shares at the height of the boom and horseplayers who bet on War Emblem, Funny Cide, and Smarty Jones at the Belmont all took a loss on their wagers.

National Optical Fibre Network

C-DOT has also inked technology transfer pacts with six Indian vendors which include ITIBSE 3.26 per cent, Tejas Networks, VMC, Sai Systems, United Telecoms and SM Creative to manufacture the gear on winning the contracts.

Pentanitroaniline

Pentanitroaniline is regulated by the United States Department of Transportation (DoT) as a "forbidden explosive" that is too dangerous to transport over public thoroughfares or by air.

Psy-S

Psy・S sáiz (often written as "Psy-S" or "Psy S" in English due to the lack of the Japanese dot "・" on most western keyboards) was a popular Japanese progressive pop/rock band, formed in 1983 by Masaya Matsuura alongside female vocal powerhouse Chaka (a pseudonym used by Mami Yasunori).

Public call office

Dursanchar government under take to private C-DOT, ITI, MTNL, BSNL and Airtel provide fixed landline postpaid PCO connections.

Reverse phase

Reverse phase protein lysate microarray, a micro-cell lysate dot-blot that allows measurement of protein expression levels

Ritmoteca.com

Founded in Miami, Florida in 1998 during the Dot-com bubble by Ivan J. Parron, and Ricardo Decubas, the company was the leading Latin music download website and an early predecessor to Apple Inc.'s now highly successful iTunes business model of selling digital music downloads over the Internet.

Ron E Sparks

As with the name of American president Harry S. Truman, the "E" in "Ron E Sparks" does not stand for anything, and thus adding a dot after it to indicate abbreviation is arguably incorrect.

Russ Lorenson

The multi-talented artist plunged into the high-tech world just as the dot-com boom was exploding.

Scient

Scient was a San Francisco-based Internet consulting company, founded in 1997, that was one of the large American consulting firms during the dot-com bubble.

Skinny Jeanz and a Mic

Many critics notedname="XXL" /> Several songs are built on the same formula of "You're a Jerk", with Allmusic noting that, "Dot Com," "Colors," "Turnt," and "So Dope" (which the chorus is a sound bite from the 1992 film Class Act) all have the cheesy drum machines, samples, and off-kilter lyric approach that make "Jerk" so good.

Taiwan Golden Bee

TGB has ISO 9001 and QS 9000 certified operation since 1995 and all products carry EC or EPA/DOT approval.

The Dot and the Line

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (ISBN 1-58717-066-3) is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963.

The Lines

A summer of Urban festivals, including The Camden Crawl, Live In Leeds, Liverpool Sound City and Dot to Dot, support slots with Ash and Ocean Colour Scene and more recently dates with Peter Doherty's on his solo tour.

Tony Fall

After he stopped driving, he became founder of the British Dealer Opel Team (DOT) as well as the self-willed but successful director of the Opel Motorsport Team in Germany, for which Walter Röhrl won the World Rally Championship for Drivers in 1982 with an Opel Ascona 400.

TVN24

Monika Olejnik – Kropka nad i (Dot Above i), Monday – Thursday at 8 pm

United States cyber-diplomacy

Another example of a DOT initiative is the narrative of Gibran Kahlil Gibran.

Yankee Boy Basin

The road starts a quarter mile south of Ouray, passes a DOT site, and winds its way up the canyon.